Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva in a statement has announced that Iran supports South Africa's genocide case against the Israeli regime.

According to The Iran Project,Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations office in Genevas in a message on X media platform wrote that 'Iran welcomes and supports South Africa’s initiative to bring the atrocities of the Israeli #apartheid regime in Palestine under GenocideConvention to ICJ."

"Int'l. community should support South Africa's efforts to hold perpetrators of the crimes to account", the message adds.

South Africa filed a case against Israel at the ICJ in November, accusing the regime of crimes of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza as part of a relentless bombardment which has killed more than 23,000 people and caused widespread destruction in the besieged enclave.